Having relentlessly toured her critically acclaimed debut album, Youth Novels, Lykke Li fled her native Sweden and moved to LA where she trained to be an actor. It's a penchant for inhabiting other characters that's most obvious in the video for the second single from her follow-up album, Wounded Rhymes. Co-starring Stellan Skarsgård (whose career encompasses roles in Good Will Hunting and Breaking The Wave as well as Mamma Mia!), it's a brooding affair, all simmering tension, vodka shots and improvised dance moves. There's a palpable sense of foreboding that permeates the near seven-minute-long video, a state that perfectly suits a song saturated in misery. "Sadness is a blessing, sadness is a curse, sadness is my boyfriend, oh sadness I'm your girl" runs the chorus as Phil Spector-style drums bang and crash in the background, Li's sometimes stilted vocals drenched in emotion. Like all the best videos, the audience are plonked into the narrative mid-storyline, with no clue who has done what, what's been said and why on earth everyone's staring at the couple in the first place.